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Chapter 2: Higher Plant in the Living
World and Scientific Method
45 Points
Question Answer
1. What is scientific inquiry?
2. How does scientific inquiry or research begin?
3. What are all the various ways to measure length?
4. What are experiments defined?
5. How can inquiry or experimentation be done from an
online course?
6. In an experiment why are replication and
randomization used for?
7. What does replication mean?
8. How does “blocking’ reduce the effect of variation?
9. What is a disadvantage of using a controlled
experiment?

10. What does ecological research include?
11. What should happen after the results from an
experiment are obtained?
12. How does a scientist arrive at conclusions from a set
of experimental data and what analysis tool can be used?
13. A hypothesis is an educated guess at what will happen
in an experiment. True or False
14. What 2 things should an experiment include?
15. What is a conclusion is based on?
16. List all of the things plants do for us.
17. List the plants that provide fiber.
18. What does the term autotroph mean?
19. What kind of plant species feed humans? Just list the
general species and not individual plants.
20. What is the number 1 ranked food plant that provides
the most amount of calories?
21. What is the number 1 ranked food plant that provides
the most amount of protein?
22. How many calories of energy do we need a day
(approximately)?

23. What food does this energy come from?
24. How many grams of protein do we need per day?
25. Can a plant diet supply all of our protein needs? Why